The Rock Queen drags you up cliffs to meet the chaotic British eccentrics who invented falling with style.
Breathtaking climbing sequences. As a guide, none other than "The Rock Queen" Catherine Destivelle. Climbing companions of the caliber of Chris Bonington or Tom Livingstone, one of the greatest Himalayan climbers today... for the production of "Great Britain, Journey to the Sources of Mountaineering," Vincent Perazio and Bertrand Delapierre have proven themselves equal to a complex but fascinating subject: the British origins of mountaineering. A journey through time. Since the second half of the 19th century and the beginnings of the British writer Albert F. Mummery, who would become the first sport mountaineer, notably in the Alps and the Caucasus.
Cinematography
Drone shots that'll ruin regular nature docs forever.
Direction
Delapierre and Pérazio make 52 minutes feel epic, not rushed.
Acting
Destivelle's understated charisma—she doesn't perform, she simply IS.
Director
Bertrand Delapierre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Catherine Destivelle was the first woman to free-climb the Bonatti Pillar in the Mont Blanc massif solo—she completed this in 1990, making her 'Rock Queen' title earned, not honorary.
The film's very existence highlights a fascinating tension: French filmmakers reclaiming a sport the British codified, while the French dominate its modern mythology. The gall!
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